Compensatory mutations cause excess of antagonistic epistasis in RNA secondary structure folding

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Wilke, Claus O ^a   Lenski, Richard E ^b   Adami, Christoph ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 1842507188     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-3-3     Document Type: Article

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